On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Tigran Aivazian wrote:> is wrong somewhere. Then perhaps we could even refine the API to have>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_FRIENDS(sym,list_of_friends)>> where only "friends" can use the symbol and even then only if they first> call (an exported function):>> register_export_payment(sym, sum);>> where 'sum' depends on the number of hours spent on writing sym().

I hope it is obvious it was a joke? Perhaps to make the joke intentionclearer I should have suggested a better "symbol exporting protocol" fromkindergarten experience:

which is not totally unlike the scheme suggested by bona fideEXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL defenders, namely "if binary-only modules don'tcontribute to the base kernel why should the base kernel let them use it'ssymbols".